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Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) futures have climbed into the top five by trading volume on Binance Futures. Binance Metal Rush Doesn’t Leave Crypto Behind Just weeks after Binance rolled out gold and silver perpetual futures settled in $USDT, the cumulative volume across the metals contracts already reached the tens of billions of dollars, a CryptoQuant report from yesterday claims. However, CryptoQuant’s analyst Marteen assures that Binance is still overwhelmingly crypto‑native. Bitcoin leads the futures volume around the low‑$20‑billion range with Ethereum following behind at $18.1B and Solana at a distant third at $3.0B. But the metals’ rise into the…

Wall Street financial services firm Cantor is among investment banks that are pitching cryptocurrency trading platform FalconX for its potential IPO, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The company has held preliminarytalks with possible advisors, but FalconX has not yet formally appointed bankers for its initial public offering, the people said, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the matter is private. FalconX declined to comment. Cantor did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. Investment banks often pitch companies for an IPO by presenting themselves as the best partner to take the business…

The recent attacks on the Pix system by the U.S. government evolved into a situation that might tilt the balance toward any of the candidates before the upcoming election, with President Lula leading in prediction markets by a slim margin. Pix Gets Into Political Commentary In Brazil As Elections Loom Pix, one of the largest instant payment networks in the world, has become a meaningful issue in Brazil as the upcoming presidential elections loom. The system, which has over 175 million users, is now in the political spotlight, as a recent report from the United States Trade Representative Office (USTR)…

Bane Labs has released NeoFS Fund Proxy contracts that enable users and applications on the EVM sidechain Neo X to fund NeoFS storage containers without interacting with Neo N3. AxLabs, one of the three teams that make up Bane Labs, also updated its 3vm developer tool to include a live wallet-connected interface for depositing $GAS to NeoFS from Neo X. NeoFS is Neo’s distributed, decentralized object storage network, where users pay for storage by depositing $GAS to the NeoFS smart contract. Until now, funding a NeoFS container required transacting directly with Neo N3. The Fund Proxy removes that requirement for…

Exchange giant Coinbase’s (COIN) asset management arm is bringing its bitcoin yield fund onchain, creating a tokenized share class of the fund with $3.5 trillion fund administrator Apex Group. The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund, managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), will be available to investors on the Base network, Coinbase’s blockchain built on Ethereum. Apex remains the transfer agent, keeping records aligned with the fund’s net asset value. The launch comes as global asset managers are looking at tokenization as the next frontier in how capital markets evolve, making bonds, equites and funds tradable on blockchain rails. Firms including BlackRock…

KuCoin has landed a notable regulatory win in Africa after being invited to join a new supervisory pilot launched by the Central Bank of Nigeria for Virtual Asset Service Providers, or VASPs. The exchange said it is the only global trading platform included in the pilot’s initial cohort, which also features regional fintech and digital asset firms. The programme is part of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s broader push to strengthen oversight of virtual asset activity and reduce financial crime risks across the sector. According to the CBN, the pilot is focused on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Financing of Terrorism and Counter-Proliferation…

An open-source AI job hunter built on Claude Code just auto-applied to hundreds of roles and actually landed a job, exposing why the real bottleneck is on-chain compute, not résumés. A viral clip shared by 0xMarioNawfal claims that “SOMEONE BUILT AN AI JOB SEARCH SYSTEM FOR CLAUDE CODE THAT $SENT 700+ APPLICATIONS AND ACTUALLY GOT HIM HIRED,” and that “THE JOB HUNT JUST GOT AUTOMATED.” SOMEONE BUILT AN AI JOB SEARCH SYSTEM FOR CLAUDE CODE THAT $SENT 700+ APPLICATIONS AND ACTUALLY GOT HIM HIRED.NOW IT’S OPEN SOURCE.THE JOB HUNT JUST GOT AUTOMATED.pic.twitter.com/L6L8RePgaX — 0xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) April 6, 2026 The system…

The DeFi sector is doubling down on its pushback against the Citadel-led call for barring decentralized protocols from blanket regulatory exemption. In a letter to the U.S SEC on Monday, the Blockchain Association (BA) termed Citadel’s proposed regulation of DeFi protocols handling tokenized assets as a “wrong approach.” The BA is an advocacy and an umbrella group with key industry members, including Coinbase. In the letter, the BA rebutted, Securities laws regulate intermediaries. They do not automatically turn neutral infrastructure into an exchange, broker, or dealer simply because that infrastructure is part of a tokenized market. The lobby group added…

Kalshi has raised more than $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a new financing round led by Coatue Management, the Wall Street Journal reported. The deal roughly doubles the company’s valuation from its $11 billion December raise and shows investors are still willing to pay up for exposure to the prediction market boom. The timing matters because prediction markets are no longer a niche side bet in crypto and fintech. Data cited by Artemis shows the sector processed roughly $27 billion in January 2026 and $23.4 billion in February. FalconX, citing Artemis data, said prediction market volume climbed…

Argentine banks are reportedly testing JPMorgan’s deposit token infrastructure for back-end settlement workflows, even as the country’s central bank still bars lenders from offering most crypto-related services to clients, according to local outlet iProUP. A group of financial institutions has begun piloting JPM Coin, a deposit token designed for institutional use. Banco CMF is among the confirmed participants, working through its newly launched corporate unit QORP as part of JPMorgan’s minimum viable product, per the report. “In the first phase, banks are expected to work on integrating available services to verify improvements in settlement times and interbank reconciliations of integrated…